Some historical graphics

Mahbubul Majumder, PhD
Jan 12, 2017

The oldest map

Konya town map (c. 6200 BC), wall painting ( 9X3 feet)

First World map

  • 550 BC
  • The world was round
  • South Europe was amazingly in good shape

First weather map

  • trade-winds & monsoons chart 1685
    • by Edmond Halley

Displaying life span

  • Historical Time Line (1744) by Joseph Priestley
  • He was a chemist who discovered oxyzen
  • Life Spans of 2000 famous people, 1200 BC - 1744 AD
  • quantitative comparison by means of bars

Latest addition chord diagram

  • Krzywinski, 2009 proposed circos diagram to display relationships between categorical variable
  • Mostly used in genomic data visualization
  • Example: Some data about relationships
           A  B  C
Freshman   8  6  4
Sophomore 15  7  9
Junior    12 10  2
Senior     5  1  3
Grad      13 11 14

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